Biography: Richard Cordray is an American attorney, elected official, and financial regulator with extensive experience at the state and federal level. Cordray began his political career in 1990, when he won a seat in the Ohio State House of Representatives. ... Cordray was elected in 2009 to serve as Ohio Attorney General. In this position, he ...
Former Director , Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Richard Cordray was elected Ohio Attorney General in November 2008. He previously served as Ohio Treasurer, Franklin County Treasurer, Ohio’s first State Solicitor and as a State Representative. Cordray’s career has been guided by the spirit of community service and the belief that government should strive to make …
Attorney General Richard Cordray's Plaque of Appreciation from the Ohio Bailiffs & Court Officers As This plaque of appreciation was presented to Attorney General Cordray at the September 2009 Ohio Bailiffs and Court Officers Association's Annual Fall Conference and Awards Banquet. On Loan from Attorney General Richard Cordray . Close this window
Richard Cordray takes over as Ohio attorney general in January.COLUMBUS -- Some of the top brass at the state attorney general's office who survived …
In 1990 , Cordray was elected to the Ohio State House of Representatives for the 33rd Congressional District, unseating six-term incumbent Republican Don Gilmore. He simultaneously taught courses at both Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Georgetown University.
Richard Cordray ( Democratic Party) was the Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray ( Democratic Party) ran for election for Governor of Ohio. He lost in the general election on November 6, 2018. He ran on a joint ticket with the lieutenant gubernatorial nominee, Betty Sutton (D). He served previously as the Attorney ...
Two years later, however, while seeking his first officially elected term to the position, he lost in the general election on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 to former United States Senator Mike DeWine; he received forty-six percent of the vote. Contents. 1 Biography. 1.1 Education.
On election night, he defeated Republican challenger Mike Crites, receiving 57 percent of the vote.
In 2002, Cordray became the first Democrat in a quarter-century to be elected Franklin County treasurer, replacing Republican Wade Steen, who just a year earlier had been appointed to the position following the health-related resignation of Bobbie M. Hall. Cordray won by a margin of 3,232 votes. Throughout the campaign, Cordray said that Steen had failed to "collect more than $44 million in delinquent property taxes." He won re-election two years later, receiving 64 percent of the vote against Republican Jim Timko.
Cordray placed third in a four-way contest for the Democratic nomination, behind Ted Celeste (brother of former-governor, Dick Celeste) and Rev. Marvin McMickle, but ahead of last-minute entry Dan Radakovich.
Cordray was elected to the Ohio Democratic Party Central Committee for the state's 15th Congressional District in 1996. That same year he was on the short list for United States attorney general along with Kent Markus and Sharon Zealey, who ultimately received the appointment. He ran for state attorney general in 1998; he received the Democratic nomination, running unopposed, but was defeated by incumbent Republican Betty Montgomery, who received 62 percent of the vote.